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Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

Chuck Berry

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Chuck Berry
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: October 18
Died: 2017
Died: March 18
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Restaurateur
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
St. Louis
Missouri
Charles Edward Anderson Berry
Charles Edward Anderson Chuck Berry
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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Sometime we'll try and reach for things we know we each want and don't deserve.
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Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
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Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.
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This is my 1963 Ford. It was the only car I could A-Ford.
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I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.
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I have so many entities now as grow older you gain responsibilities, you know, real estate, and I like video, and you know I want to live a little you know, because time is passing, its not as long as it has been.
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Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.
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He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.
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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.
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